Harjot’s Reviews > The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World > Status Update

This is a bit like reading a witty British textbook, but I am making my way through! There were some interesting points on how the hemispheres tend to use specific types of attention, and the relationship they have with information processing! There seems to be a hierarchy of processing which goes right, left, right, but this seems to be the case when the Corpus Callosum is cut.

It's getting interesting! McGilchrist reports that the left hemisphere is more detail-oriented, hyper-focused, while the right takes a birds-eye view or a more holistic view. This is reflected in the lateralization and subsequent preference of mammals for doing certain tasks. For example, using the right eye (contralaterally correlated to the left hemisphere) for feeding while gathering information with the right.